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judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"
get worse; "Her health is declining"
disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis" (同)betray
fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" (同)flunk, bomb, flush it
stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" (同)go bad, give_way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break_down
be unsuccessful; "Where do todays public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" (同)go wrong, miscarry
fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" (同)neglect
prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" (同)run_out, give out
be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"
fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"
termination of pregnancy
lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure"
loss of ability to function normally; "kidney failure"
an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test"
an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanics failure to check the brakes"
a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently (同)loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person
an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose; "the surprise party was a complete failure"
not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
without success; "she tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a new car"
below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wifes failings" (同)weakness
failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report" (同)flunk
the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization

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『失敗』する,しくじる;落第する / 不足する,欠けている / 『衰える』,弱くなる / 〈会社などが〉破産する,倒産する / (いざというときに)〈人〉‘の'『役にたたない』,期待を裏切る,〈人〉‘を'見捨てる / 〈教師が〉〈学生・生徒〉‘を'落とす,‘に'落第点をつける / 〈学科・試験など〉‘に'『落第する』 / =failure
〈U〉〈C〉流産;妊娠中絶 / 〈U〉(計画などの)失敗;〈C〉(実現しなかった)案,計画
〈U〉(…における)『失敗』,不成功《+『in』+『名』(do『ing』)》 / 〈C〉失敗者,落後者;失敗した企て,不できなもの / 〈U〉〈C〉怠慢,不履行 / 〈U〉〈C〉(…の)不足,欠乏《+『of』+『名』》 / 〈U〉〈C〉(…の)破産《+『of』+『名』》 / 〈U〉(…の)『衰弱』,減退《+『in』(『of』+『名』》
不成功の,失敗の;(…に)失敗する《+in+塁(do・ing)》
欠点,弱点;失敗,落第;破産 / …がないので,がない場合には
ファ(全音階の第4音)

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Train wreck at Montparnasse, France (1895).

Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success.^[1] Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.

In science

"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate".
— Thomas J. Watson^[2]

Wired Magazine editor Kevin Kelly likewise explains that a great deal can be learned from things going unexpectedly, and that part of science's success comes from keeping blunders "small, manageable, constant, and trackable". He uses the example of engineers and programmers who push systems to their limits, breaking them to learn about them. Kelly also warns against creating a culture (e.g. school system) that punishes failure harshly, because this inhibits a creative process, and risks teaching people not to communicate important failures with others (e.g. Null results).^[3]

Criteria

The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.

It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.

Types

Failure can be differentially perceived from the viewpoints of the evaluators. A person who is only interested in the final outcome of an activity would consider it to be an Outcome Failure if the core issue has not been resolved or a core need is not met. A failure can also be a process failure whereby although the activity is completed successfully, a person may still feel dissatisfied if the underlying process is perceived to be below expected standard or benchmark.

Failure to anticipate
Failure to perceive
Failure to carry out a task

Loser is a derogatory term for a person who is (according to the standards of the observer) generally unsuccessful or undesirable.

Commercial failures

A commercial failure is a product that does not reach expectations of success.

Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investments, and/or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations," there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop."

For flops in computer and video gaming, see List of commercial failures in computer and video gaming
For company failures related to the 1997–2001 Dot-com bubble, see Dot-com company
See also Vaporware
Box-office bomb
For flops in music, see List of commercial failures in music

Sometimes, "commercial failures" can receive a cult following.

Internet memes

Adaptation of above image illustrating an Internet meme.^{[original research?]}

"Fail" is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose a caption, often the word "fail" or "epic fail", onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events or people falling short of expectations.^[4] In July 2003, a contributor to Urban Dictionary wrote that the term, "fail," could be used as an interjection, "when one disapproves of something," citing the example: "You actually bought that? FAIL." This most likely originated as a shortened form of "You fail" or, more fully, "You fail it," the taunting "game over" message in the 1998 Japanese video game Blazing Star, notorious for its fractured English.^[5]^[6]^[7] There is an entire Internet site dedicated to "fails" called Fail Blog.^[5] The #fail hash tag is used on the microblogging site Twitter to indicate contempt or displeasure, and the image that accompanies the message that the site is overloaded is referred to as the "fail whale".^[8]

Failboat or consignment of fail is a popular macro series, featuring images of cargo vessels tipping over or shedding cargo, with captions such as 'the failboat has arrived', or 'all aboard the failboat'. The original vessel whose image was used was the MV Cougar Ace,^{[citation needed]} although the Ital Florida, the MV Napoli and even the SS Normandy, sunk at her berth in New York Harbor, have appeared.

The term "miserable failure" has also been popularized as a result of a widely known "Google bombing," which caused Google searches for the term to turn up the White House biography of George W. Bush.^[9]

References

^ Merriam-Webster. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/failure
^ "Quotes / Thomas J. Watson on failure". goodreads.com. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ "THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2011 — Page 6". Edge.org. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
^ "Memes Help Keep Internet Interesting.". www.redorbit.com. March 22, 2008. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Zimmer, Ben (August 7, 2009). "How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection.". New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
^ Schofield, Jack (17 October 2008). "All your FAIL are belong to us.". The Guardian. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
^ Beam, Christopher (2008-10-15). "Epic Win". Slate. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
^ Malik, Asmaa (24 April 2010). "Joy in the failure of others has gone competitive". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 21 May 2010. ^{[dead link]}
^ Mikkelson, Barbara; Mikkelson, David P. (August 13, 2007). "Someone Set Us Up The Google Bomb.". Snopes.com. Retrieved August 9, 2009.

External links

Designing Building Failures
Zimmer, Ben (August 7, 2009), "How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection", New York Times Magazine .
Association for the Study of Failure from Japan

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